Bangkok, September 24, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the harsh
prison sentences handed down today to three prominent Vietnamese online
journalists convicted of anti-state charges. In a widening
crackdown on press and Internet freedoms, Vietnamese courts have sentenced
six journalists and bloggers to prison in the last five weeks.

Vietnamese
officials are stepping up repression of old and new media even as they promote
an image of an open, globalized economy. Intense surveillance and imprisonment
of critical journalists, coupled with increasingly restrictive laws, are choking the flow of information. A
CPJ special report by Shawn W. Crispin

Bangkok, August 11, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the prison sentence handed down on Wednesday to French-Vietnamese blogger Pham Minh Hoang and joins international calls for the dual national's immediate and unconditional release.

Bangkok,
July 11, 2011--Authorities must stop harassing journalists reporting on
public demonstrations in Vietnam,
the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On Sunday, police detained and
interrogated three reporters who were covering anti-China protests in Hanoi where around a dozen
demonstrators were arrested.

Bangkok, October 28, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest and detention of Vietnamese blogger Le Nguyen Huong Tra. Her arrest is the latest episode in a mounting crackdown on bloggers leading up to a crucial Communist Party congress scheduled for January 2011.